Un recueil d'essais critiques pour repenser et tenter d'améliorer la relation entre les artistes et les institutions artistiques, en mettant en lumière la réalité précaire et complexe des travailleurs de l'art.
« Beneath the glamorous surface of the art world—the openings and dinner parties, the record-breaking auction prices, the media attention—lies a reality that is precarious, complex, and very often existential: only a tiny minority of artists support themselves with their work and fewer still manage to do so throughout their lives. This book tells those other stories, for example of artistic practices grounded in performance, research, and political activism. These practices are not necessarily oriented toward producing marketable objects. Thousands of artists around the world, at all latitudes, struggle every day under precarious work conditions, in the absence of shared rules, and with a debilitating sense of insecurity caused not only by the threat of global pandemics but also by war and political oppression, resurgent nuclear threat, competition for dwindling resources, and perhaps most pressing of all, the climate crisis.
The economic challenge of supporting oneself as an artist immediately turns into an ethical one. » Andrea Bellini
Edité par Andrea Bellini et Göksu Kunak.
Textes de Alexandra Bachzetsis, Andrea Bellini, Frances Chiaverini & Robyn Doty, Luce deLire, Lucy Fair, Will Fredo, Mona Gamil, Oélia Gouret, Adham Hafez, Sofia Kouloukouri, Adam Kucharski, Göksu Kunak, Isabel Lewis, Soraya Lutangu Bonaventure, Reba Maybury, Michelangelo Miccolis, Ahmet Öğüt, Perel, Domenico Quaranta, Tino Sehgal, Lise Soskolne, Annie Sprinkle, Tirdad Zolghadr.
